Spinal Cord Flashcards

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Spinal cord

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Continuation of the
MEDULLA OBLONGATA🔥🦁
of the brainstem

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2
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Parts of meninges

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Dura and Pia

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3
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Dura

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Outermost spinal meninix

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4
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Pia

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Inner most spinal meninix

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5
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Reflex Arc

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Involuntary reaction to external stimulus,results in a reflex

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Involuntary reflex arcs

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Heartbeat rate, digestion, breathing rates

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Automatic subconscious reactions

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Coughing, sneezing, swallowing, vomiting

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Peripheral nervous system

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Includes cranial and spinal nerves, divided into somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system

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Somatic

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Controls conscious activities

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Autonomic

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Controls unconscious activities

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Autonomic system (ANS)

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Helps deal with emergency situations, emotions, and physical activities

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12
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2 parts of the autonomic system

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Sympathetic and parasympathetic

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Sympathetic division

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Prepares body for stressful situations by increasing heart beat & breathing rates to flee from a threatening situation

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Parasympathetic division

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Operates under normal non-stressful conditions and relaxing the body after a stressful situation, this counterbalances the effects of sympathetic division, and it stimulates digestion, urination, and defecation

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15
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31 pairs of spinal nerves

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Cervical (8)
Thoracic (12)
Lumbar (5)
Sacral (5)
Coccygeal (1)
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16
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12 cranial nerves

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Olfactory, optic, oculomotor, trochlear, trigeminal, abduncens, facial, vestibulocochelear, glossopharyngeal, vagus, accessory, hypoglossal

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Olfactory

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Smell

18
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Optic

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Sight

19
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Oculomotor

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Movement of eyeballs and upper eyelid

20
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Trochlear

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Movement of eyeball, sensory and motor

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Trigeminal

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Chewing, sense of touch, temperature, pain in teeth and facial area, sensory and motor

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Abduncens

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Movement of eyeballs, abduction, sensory and motor

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Facial

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Control muscles of the facial expression, senses taste, parasympathetic controls tear and saliva, sensory and motor

24
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Vagus

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Skeletal muscle movement of head, sensory and motor

25
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Hypoglossal

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Controls muscles involves in swallowing and speech, sensory and motor